Bianca Kotoulas

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ResearchGate: Bianca Kotoulas

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self-worth index:

2026–2029 — Ongoing

PhD dissertation — TBA

Kotoulas, B., Lynch, K. (secondary supervisor), Dar-Nimrod, I. (supervisor)


Commenced 2026 — Ongoing

Gooning, Gooners, and the Gooning community — a qualitative study

Kotoulas, B., Holder Young, H., Kassara, M., Gomes Rua, J., Dar-Nimrod, I.


Commenced 2026 — Ongoing

Grasping 'gooning' –– an observational analysis of online forums

Kotoulas, B., Holder Young, H., Kassara, M., Gomes Rua, J., Dar-Nimrod, I.


Preregistered 2026 — Ongoing

Prevalence of Existential Concerns Within the Postpartum Period and Their Correlates With Mental Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Menzies, R., Kotoulas, B., Bennett, A., Macdonald, D., Riotto, G., Dixon, D., Rollo, J., Witty, L., & Lyndon, C.


2025 — Preprint

Has transparency improved in clinical psychology? A repeated cross-sectional study (2012, 2018, 2024)

Kotoulas, B., Blackwell, J. C., & Hardwicke, T. E.


2026 — Published

Driven Toward Care, Avoiding the End: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Relationship Between Death Anxiety and Healthcare Utilisation

Menzies, R.E., Lyndon, C., Kotoulas, B., & Rae, A.


Commenced 2026 — Ongoing

Longitudinal study of existential concerns during pregnancy and postpartum, and their impact on mental health

Menzies, R. (Project lead), Kotoulas, B.


Commenced 2026 — Ongoing

Empirically examining causal links between loneliness and death anxiety

Petrovic, B., Kotoulas, B., Holder Young, L.

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============= ACKNOWLEDGEMENT =============

I acknowledge that I work and live on unceded Gadigal Land. I would like to acknowledge and celebrate the monumental impacts of First Nations psychological thought leaders including (but not limited to) Dr Tracy Westman's Culture-bound syndromes in Aboriginal Australian populations (2021), and Professor Pat Dudgeon et al.'s Solutions That Work: What the Evidence and Our People Tell Us (2016).